Joseph and Martha Starks Wagley came to Red River County from Louisiana in 1833, settling in this area south of present-day Annona. The couple had eight children by the time of Martha's death in 1857, and Joseph later married widow Nancy Ann Coffee, . . . — — Map (db m299882) HM
George Washington Warthan came to Texas from Tuscaloosa, Alabama with brothers Thomas I. and Robert J. in 1852. G.W. wed Amanda Johnson, and the couple settled in the Red River Valley in 1855. In 1861, he mustered into Company E of the 32nd Texas . . . — — Map (db m234359) HM
In 1856, the Rev. Thomas Wilson Anderson (1815-1890) organized Salem Baptist Church with twelve charter members. The first church building was located northeast of Boxelder; by 1871, the congregation had moved to this location. By 1918, the church . . . — — Map (db m299853) HM
The Douglas Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was organized in 1896. A one-room frame church building with a steeple and belfry was constructed, and shared with other denominations. It was also used as a school until 1901. The town of Douglas was . . . — — Map (db m160917) HM
In 1852, Oliver English, and his uncle, Simeon English, brought three families and 30 slaves from Missouri to establish plantations in the area. They crossed the Red River at what was then known as the Mill Creek Crossing and travelled the Mill . . . — — Map (db m300143) HM
Father and son, James and Andrew Jackson Titus, played key roles in
the growth and development of the advancing American frontier.
James Titus (1775-1843) was born in Botetourt County, Virginia, to
Ebenezer Titus and Rachel Mathews (Bowen) Titus. . . . — — Map (db m299673) HM
Located southwest of Avery, this historic cemetery originated as the final resting place for Red River County pioneer, planter and legislator James Titus (1775-1843). His wife, Rebecca Edmondson Titus (1788-1846), and many descendants are buried . . . — — Map (db m299672) HM
William Humphries (1805-1880), an 1818 to mid-1820s pioneer in this area, returned in 1836 to settle permanently. In 1840 his 9-year-old daughter died and was buried near the line between his headright and that of Isaac Wilson. When a Wilson . . . — — Map (db m300159) HM
Wilson, John, and Sam McCrury and their two sisters arrived in this area from Missouri in 1835. A private family burial ground was begun on the land of John McCrury upon his death in 1864. Although there are probably earlier burials here, his is the . . . — — Map (db m272740) HM
William Becknell (1788-1856) of Missouri is renowned for opening the Santa Fe Trail from the United States into Spain's New World Empire in 1821. He and his wife Mary settled in 1835 near here, on Becknell's Prairie, with a daughter and two sons. On . . . — — Map (db m234358) HM
In 1833, Huntington, Tennessee native Albert Latimer and his family traveled with a caravan to Texas and settled just north of present-day Clarksville. Latimer became involved in Texas politics, signing the Texas Declaration of Independence and . . . — — Map (db m300153) HM
This burial site was first used in the 1830s for the family of James Clark, the founder of Clarksville, who is interred here. The earliest grave is that of his father Benjamin Clark, a veteran of the American Revolution. Other graves include those . . . — — Map (db m96890) HM
Left front
Born April 14 · 1788 in Newark New Jersey
Died in Galveston Texas December 5 · 1870
Delegate to the Second Convention
of Texas 1833 · Judge of the
Department of the Brazos 1834
Delegate to the Consultation . . . — — Map (db m240789) HM
The Red River County Agricultural and Mechanical Association organized a county fair in 1856 with the fairgrounds west of the Clarksville city limits. After the fair was held at this site for many years, a portion of the property was sold for use as . . . — — Map (db m300152) HM
Kentucky minister W. M. Pickett and seven charter members organized this congregation in 1847. The devoted group of Baptists endured nearly impassable roads, inclement weather, and a scattered population and built their first sanctuary in 1850 on a . . . — — Map (db m300151) HM
Clarksville's first Presbyterian Church has occupied this site on the banks of the Delaware since 1858-1859. The church was organized by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, which established many congregations during the western expansion of the . . . — — Map (db m190033) HM
On March 2, 1836, members of the Convention of 1836 signed the Texas Declaration of Independence at Washington-on-the-Brazos, declaring Texas independent from Mexico. Of the 59 signers, five were from Red River County, more than from any of the . . . — — Map (db m96900) HM
Pioneer soldier, statesman and publisher
Founder and Editor of the
Northern Standard
1842-1887
First and most important newspaper
in the region during that period
Around two log rooms built in 1833,
he erected his . . . — — Map (db m96655) HM
Slain in the line of duty while on alert for President John F. Kennedy's assassin, J. D. Tippit (1924-1963) grew up on his family's farm near this site. He served as a paratrooper in the 17th Airborne Division during World War II and received the . . . — — Map (db m224405) HM
This burial ground is one of the last reminders of the Lone
Star community. The area was settled in the 1850s, mostly by
farmers from other southern states. When Calvin Gilmore and
Evaline (Bateman) Jackson's infant son, Calvin Burten, . . . — — Map (db m300156) HM
During the 4 years, 4 months after secession, Texas sent 18 lawmakers to the Confederate capitols. Her delegates to the Provisional Congress, Feb. 1861 to Feb. 1862, were John R. Gregg, Freestone County; John Hemphill, Travis County; Wm. B. . . . — — Map (db m96899) HM
Acreage for a community church, school, and graveyard was given in 1859 by George M. Sargeant. The first burial in the cemetery was for George W. Rolston (d. 1859), a veteran of the War of 1812. Additional land for the New Haven Baptist Church and . . . — — Map (db m300148) HM
In 1837 a murderer named Page
and two others were hanged on
a limb of this large post oak tree.
At the time, the tree was 96 years
old. From that day on, it has been
known as "Page's Tree". — — Map (db m96887) HM
This building was completed in 1889 as the second jail for Red River County. Architects Maj. S. B. Haggart and Marshall Sanguinet designed the structure as a companion building to the County Courthouse, which had been completed five years earlier. . . . — — Map (db m96903) HM
In grateful memory we dedicate
this memorial to those from
Red River County who died in
the service of their country.
They stand in the unbroken line of
patriots who were willing to die so
freedom might live and grow and
increase . . . — — Map (db m98452) WM
Records date from 1836.
Fifth courthouse for
county. Built 1885. Italian
Renaissance design.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
(Sub-plate)
This property has been placed on the . . . — — Map (db m96905) HM
An outstanding school of the southwest before the Civil War. Established in 1841 by the Reverend John W.P. McKenzie (1806-1877), pioneer missionary to the Choctaws, circuit rider in Texas in 1838. Opened in a log cabin, it expanded to four large . . . — — Map (db m300155) HM
Originally constructed in 1883 under leadership of the Rev. John Jackson. One of the first Negro church buildings in Red River County. Prior to this members worshipped in makeshift quarters. Rebuilt in 1937. Six generations have worshipped here. . . . — — Map (db m96904) HM
Across the street from this site, and facing the County Courthouse which was later (1885) torn down, the Donoho Hotel and stage stand operated during the Civil War, 1861-65. Travel in those years was heavy. Soldiers arriving in Texas from Arkansas, . . . — — Map (db m96651) HM
The first known burial at Stone's Chapel Cemetery is that of Parson Amos M. Stone (1813-1862). A New York native, Stone was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister in Tennessee who moved to Texas in 1857 with his wife, Margaret Rodgers, their five . . . — — Map (db m300150) HM
On this Site Stood the Home of
The Northern
Standard
A pioneer Texas newspaper edited
and published from August 20, 1842
to October 25, 1887 by Colonel
Charles DeMorse (1816-1887) ◊ A loyal
statesman and a . . . — — Map (db m96657) HM
Frontier minister; friend of Stephen F. Austin, father of Texas. A circuit rider in Missouri Conference, Methodist Church, Mr. Stevenson in 1815 made a pastoral trip to Pecan Point, home of Claiborne Wright, member of newly-arrived Anglo-American . . . — — Map (db m96898) HM
This historic cemetery is also known as Robbinsville Cemetery after the community that once thrived in this area. Named for John Robbins, an early settler, Robbinsville served as a gathering place for area farmers. The cemetery became known as . . . — — Map (db m234356) HM
This congregation was organized by the Rev. A.H. Darnell in 1901, soon after the town of Bennett Station became known as Detroit. Darnell then served as first pastor of the fellowship and provided leadership for the construction of this sanctuary . . . — — Map (db m234292) HM
As a young lawyer lived, 1889-92, in this house owned by his parents. He rose from Uvalde County Judge (1893-96), to Texas Legislature (1898-1902), to U. S. Congress (1904-32, with a term as Speaker, House of Representatives), to Vice President of . . . — — Map (db m270425) HM
William Becknell, known as the “Father of the Santa Fe Trail,” was an American frontier soldier, trader, farmer, rancher and politician. Becknell was born in Virginia in 1787 or 1788 to Micaiah and Pheby (Landrum) Becknell. He married . . . — — Map (db m160379) HM
In this vicinity archeologists have located a large village and ceremonial center occupied between A.D. 1000 and A.D. 1700 by ancestors of the Caddo Indians. Sedentary farmers, the Caddos built villages and farms on alluvial terraces of the Red . . . — — Map (db m297668) HM
Alamo defender Jesse B. Bowman was born in Tennessee about 1785. By 1811 he was living in Illinois where his son Joseph T. Bowman was born that year. Bowman and his family settled in Ouichita County, Arkansas, until it became more populated and . . . — — Map (db m297671) HM
One of first ports of entry into Texas for Anglo-Americans. Opened early as 1814; heavily used by 1817. Named for 1819-21 ferry owner Henry Jones (1789-1861). Claimed by both Mexico and the United States, town was 1828-37 county seat of Miller . . . — — Map (db m297673) HM
Near here
at the old Jonesboro crossing
Sam Houston
an envoy of President Andrew Jackson
first set foot on Texas soil
December 2, 1832 — — Map (db m297672) HM
This burial ground was established by Andrew Jackson Tuggle (1815-1877) a farmer who moved here from Tennessee c. 1850 with his wife Elizabeth (1819-1895). When a mother and infant died in 1864, Tuggle set aside property for use as a cemetery and . . . — — Map (db m300147) HM
